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Ethereum community members propose new fee structure for the app layer
27.4.2025
Two Ethereum community members, Kevin Owocki and Devansh Mehta, proposed a dynamic fee structure for the Ethereum application layer to strike a balance between revenue generation for app builders and fairness in fee extraction.The April 27 proposal outlined a simple equation that uses a square root...
Stacks' STX Is Week's Best Performer as Bitgo Link Seen Boosting Institutional Use
25.4.2025
The Stacks-based DeFi ecosystem has seen a significant increase in liquidity, with stablecoin supply surging over 400% in the first quarter
Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi
23.4.2025
Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2
Symbiotic raises $29M for staking-based universal coordination layer
23.4.2025
Cryptocurrency staking protocol Symbiotic closed a $29 million Series A funding round led by Web3-focused investment firms, including Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures, to support the launch of a new economic coordination layer for blockchain security.The round included more than 100 angel...
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum’s EVM With RISC-V
21.4.2025
Buterin argues that transitioning Ethereum to the open-source RISC-V architecture will “greatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer.”
Ethereum Foundation shifts focus to user experience, layer-1 scaling
21.4.2025
The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization developing the Ethereum ecosystem, is shifting its focus to user experience and layer-1 scaling challenges following its March leadership reshuffle. On April 21, the Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak shared an...
Ethereum Foundation shifts focus to user experience, layer-1 scaling
21.4.2025
The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization developing the Ethereum ecosystem, is shifting its focus to user experience and layer-1 scaling challenges following its March leadership reshuffle. On April 21, the Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak shared an...
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing EVM With RISC-V for Ethereum’s Execution Layer
21.4.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a transformative idea to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V as the primary virtual machine language for smart contracts, aiming to enhance the efficiency and scalability of Ethereum’s execution layer. This proposal suggests...
A16z doubles down on LayerZero with $55M investment
17.4.2025
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, announced a $55 million investment in LayerZero, a Web3 company that runs a crosschain messaging protocol. The investment was disclosed in an April 17 X post by Ali Yahya, a general partner in the firm.A16z has made previous investments...
Ethereum Is What Bitcoin Was Meant to Be
16.4.2025
The other major cryptocurrency is becoming the global settlement layer for on-chain assets, says Advantage Blockchain’s Alec Beckman
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects
16.4.2025
Tips and tricks on utilizing the CSS backdrop-filter property to style user interfaces. You’ll learn how to layer backdrop filters among multiple elements, and integrate them with other CSS graphical effects to create elaborate designs.
Using CSS backdrop-filter for UI Effects originally published...
MIT-Incubated Optimum Raises $11M Seed Round to Build Web3's Missing Memory Layer
15.4.2025
The seed round was led by 1kx and included Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Spartan and more
Avalon Labs Launches Institutional Layer on Bybit to Enhance Bitcoin Lending and Yield
15.4.2025
Avalon Labs has launched its institutional layer on Bybit, aimed at transforming bitcoin lending and yield opportunities within the centralized exchange ecosystem. This new feature allows bitcoin holders to access enhanced yield by leveraging Avalon’s fixed-rate institutional borrowing layer...
Vitalik Buterin says the app layer needs ‘good social philosophy’ most
14.4.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues it’s Ethereum’s application layer, not its infrastructure layer, where Ethereum needs “good social philosophy” the most. The app layer is where developers build decentralized applications on top of Ethereum’s base...
Cosmos launches Eureka to connect Ethereum and IBC networks
10.4.2025
Cosmos, a blockchain network aiming to become the “internet of blockchains,” has launched Eureka, an interoperability layer designed to link its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol with Ethereum.According to an April 10 announcement, Eureka has expanded the Cosmos...
Cosmos launches Eureka to connect Ethereum and IBC networks
10.4.2025
Cosmos, a blockchain network aiming to become the “internet of blockchains,” has launched Eureka, an interoperability layer designed to link its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol with Ethereum.According to an April 10 announcement, Eureka has expanded the Cosmos...
Babylon, Which Has Over $4B BTC Locked, Launches Layer 1 'Genesis' to Advance Its BTC Yield Platform
10.4.2025
With more value tied up in BTC than every other cryptocurrency in existence combined, Babylon is aiming to channel this into the wider crypto ecosystem
The Protocol: EigenLayer Ready to Launch Missing Feature
9.4.2025
Also: Bitcoin L2 SDKs; North Korea's THORChain Use; and Quantum-Resistant BTC
Rootstock Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX
8.4.2025
Rootstock founder Sergio Lerner sees Bitcoin layers-2s as fundamental to BTC fulfilling its purpose of being "money for the people"
Greedy L2s are the reason ETH is a 'completely dead' investment: VC
29.3.2025
Ether's (ETH) declining appeal as an investment comes from layer-2’s draining value from the main network and a lack of community pushback on excessive token creation, a crypto venture capitalist says.“The #1 cause of this is greedy Eth L2s siphoning value from the L1 and the social...